PUBLIC-INBOX-INIT(1) public-inbox user manual PUBLIC-INBOX-INIT(1) NAME public-inbox-init - create or reinitialize a public-inbox SYNOPSIS public-inbox-init [OPTIONS] NAME INBOX_DIR HTTP_URL ADDRESS [ADDRESS..] DESCRIPTION Creates an empty public-inbox or reinitializes an existing one. It updates "~/.public-inbox/config" by creating a "[publicinbox "NAME"]" section where "publicinbox.NAME.inboxdir" is "INBOX_DIR", "publicinbox.NAME.url" is "HTTP_URL", and "publicinbox.NAME.address" is "ADDRESS". Multiple addresses may be specified for inboxes with multiple addresses. OPTIONS -V FORMAT_VERSION --version FORMAT_VERSION Specify 2 here to use the scalable public-inbox-v2-format(5) if you have DBD::SQLite installed. The default is 1 for the old public-inbox-v1-format(5), but 2 is strongly recommended for scalability if you have DBD::SQLite. Default: 1 -L --indexlevel Controls the indexing level for public-inbox-index(1) See public-inbox-config(5) for more information. Default: "full" --ng NEWSGROUP --newsgroup NEWSGROUP The NNTP group name for use with public-inbox-nntpd(8). This may be any newsgroup name with hierarchies delimited by ".". For example, the newsgroup for is: "inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta" This may be set after-the-fact via "publicinbox.$NAME.newsgroup" in the configuration file. See public-inbox-config(5) for more info. Available in public-inbox 1.6.0+. Default: none. -c KEY=VALUE Allow setting arbitrary configs as "publicinbox.$NAME.$KEY". This is idempotent for the same "VALUE", but allows setting multiple values for keys such as "publicinbox.$NAME.url" and "publicinbox.$NAME.watch". --skip-artnum This option allows archivists to publish incomplete archives with only new mail while allowing NNTP article numbers to be reserved for yet-to-be-archived old mail. This is mainly intended for users of "--skip-epoch" (documented below) but may be of use to public-inbox-v1-format(5) users. There is no automatic way to use reserved NNTP article numbers when old mail is found, yet. Available in public-inbox 1.6.0+. Default: unset, no NNTP article numbers are skipped -S --skip-epoch For "-V2" (public-inbox-v2-format(5)) inboxes only, this option allows archivists to publish incomplete archives with newer mail while allowing "0.git" (or "1.git" and so on) epochs to be added- after-the-fact (without affecting "git clone" followers). Available since public-inbox 1.2.0. Default: unset, no epochs are skipped -j JOBS --jobs=JOBS Control the number of Xapian index shards in a "-V2" (public-inbox-v2-format(5)) inbox. It can be useful to use a single shard ("-j1") for inboxes on high- latency storage (e.g. rotational HDD) unless the system has enough RAM to cache 5-10x the size of the git repository. Another approach for HDDs is to use the "publicInbox.indexSequentialShard" in public-inbox-index(1) option and many shards, so each shard may fit into the kernel page cache. Unfortunately, excessive shards slows down read-only query performance. For fast storage, it is generally not useful to specify higher values than the default due to the top-level producer process being a bottleneck. Default: the number of online CPUs, up to 4 (3 shard workers, 1 producer) --skip-docdata Do not store document data in Xapian, reducing Xapian storage overhead by around 1.5%. Warning: this option prevents rollbacks to public-inbox 1.5.0 and earlier. Available in public-inbox 1.6.0+. ENVIRONMENT PI_CONFIG Used to override the default "~/.public-inbox/config" value. LIMITATIONS Some of the options documented in public-inbox-config(5) require editing the config file. Old versions lack the "--ng"/"--newsgroup" parameter See public-inbox-config(5) for all the options which may be applied to a given inbox. CONTACT Feedback welcome via plain-text mail to The mail archives are hosted at and COPYRIGHT Copyright 2019-2021 all contributors License: AGPL-3.0+ SEE ALSO git-init(1), git-config(1), public-inbox-v1-format(5), public-inbox-v2-format(5) public-inbox.git 1993-10-02 PUBLIC-INBOX-INIT(1)